2nd GOLD World Report : Regional workshops on local finance

The 2nd Edition of UCLG’s Triennial Global Report on Decentralization and Local Democracy (GOLD II) will be focus on exploring the situation of local government finance across the globe. The Report, set for publication in time to be presented this November at UCLG’s III Congress in Mexico City, will set out the advances and setbacks as well as the challenges and ways forward to strengthen the financial position of local governments in the view of improving service provision, within a regional framework.

To ensure that the final text reflects the views of local government in the regions, the draft chapters are currently being debated in a series of area-based workshops.

This process, launched during UCLG’s World Council last November in Guangzhou, China, has now brought experts and practitioners together in workshops held in San Salvador (El Salvador), Moscow (Russia) and Istanbul (Turkey).

The next workshop in this series will hosted by the town of Sceaux (France) on March 31st, where the European draft chapter will be reviewed.